{"product_id":"9780345419040","title":"A World Made of Fire","description":" \"The ambivalence of fire—as evocation of glowing love and furious destruction—permeates this stunning first novel by Mark Childress, a young Southern writer who gives fresh expression to his region's literary preoccupations. A World Made of Fire is set in rural Alabama in the decades before World War I . . . Childress has created a wholly believable world. The landscapes are forceful and the characters deeply felt. . . . A World Made of Fire probes varieties of tenderness and love, principally from the viewpoint of [a] young girl, Estelle Bates, whose literary forebears include Lena Grove in Faulkner's Light in August. . . .Childress dramatically traces her course, keeping the violent and the tender elements in a tense, remarkably effective balance. . . . Reading it is rather like staring for a good long while into the coals of a fire; in that concentration of energy, many things can be learned.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Newsday  ","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47027641188592,"sku":"9780345419040","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780345419040_p0.gif?v=1763687228","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780345419040","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}